Gustave Flaubert Quotes - Page 6

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• Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Literature, Politeness

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.220, Harvard University Press

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• Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, People, Sensual

  Gustave Flaubert (1967). “Intimate notebook, 1840-1841”

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• It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Men, Frying Pans, Chestnuts

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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• It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Travel, Voyages, Return

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• Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Madness, Rage, Orderly

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• A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Writing, Men, Order

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• What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Serious Person, Sticks, Gestures

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• Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Discipline, Goal, Entrepreneur

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• Talent is a long patience.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Long, Talent, Long Patience

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• For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Princess, Passion, Rotary

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• As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Keys, Piano, Keyboards

  Gustave Flaubert (1964). “Madame Bovary”

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• What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Nonsense, Glory, Fame

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• The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Visible, Fiction Writers, Universe

  Gustave Flaubert (2009). “Madame Bovary”, p.16, Hackett Publishing

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• You don’t make art out of good intentions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Good Intentions, Intention

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• Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Hatred, Commencement, Bourgeois

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• The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Atheism, Unhappy

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• The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Father, Son, Aggravation

  Letter to Madame Louise Colet, December 11, 1852.

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• I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Good Sense

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.88, Harvard University Press

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• Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Truth, Creativity, Originality

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• My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Compassion, Want, Kingdoms

  1874 The Temptation of St Antony.

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• Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Lying, Art Is

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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• Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Animal, Men

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• It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Looks, Habit, Excellent

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• I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Keys, Special, Literature

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• My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Dream, Stupid

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